My wife and I traveled to New Orleans for a friend’s wedding recently, stopping along the way to have lunch at the wonderful Johnson’s Boucaniere in Lafayette. We ate boudin links on their crowded patio,…

The Blanc et Noir Marching Society, a traditional, New Orleans-style second line group who march at the head of the annual Krewe of Highland Mardi Gras Parade (scheduled to roll through Shreveport’s historic Highland neighborhood…